I suppose it is, if you think the misery of two dogs a satisfactory price for the happiness of the others. I'm sure it would get a majority vote from ...
There are real mathematical and philosophical issues about infinity. I think they may be insoluble. But philosophers are suckers for an insoluble prob...
That little word actually is interesting. What does it mean? Either I have a choice, or I do not. In one way, you are right. But there are some kinds ...
I get the first half of the sentence. But the meaning of the second half is not at all clear to me. Your diagram in your "Small world model" doesn't h...
Quite so. Only, if at all possible, I would like to be regarded as only coerced by the law when I do so. Keeping the law means that one could break it...
We started this discussion because you said:- I think I may have interpreted this in a way different from you. It's complicated. You can't play both l...
Yes. Exactly. I'm afraid I couldn't follow your account of this. I'll have to take another look at it later on. But I'm not sure that the project of t...
I did assume you were endorsing the view you quoted. I should have been a bit more cautious. But I wasn't annoyed or anything. You don't seem particul...
You are quite right. But it's not often that I come across such egregious examples. . Dear, oh, dear. I thought it was the causal determinist who was ...
I don't understand the question. I think that's because norms are not an optional extra in Wittgenstein's philosophy. Perhaps they are not so clearly ...
Yes, that's a classic example of what dictionaries can do, otherwise known as a circular definition. I believe it is somewhat frowned upon in philosop...
I was thinking of a term that would apply to sequences in general. I think I can work with that. But I see that you used "entry" elsewhere. That's sim...
Well, I'm inclined to agree with you at least this far, that "I believe that p and that p is false" is a contradiction. "I believe that p and that p m...
Thanks for the invitation. I can try. But as long as people think that the search for free will is the search for an uncaused cause or a search for in...
I've been aware of some of them. I suppose I'll just have to experiment and see what happens. That suggests one could start a useful discussion from t...
I agree with this. But there are some questions. A popular way of having both is to argue that they are compatible. There's been a lot of discussion o...
In the quotation in that message, I made no statement. I just asked a question. Thank you for the answer to my question. It is very helpful. I would h...
Well, I think that the opportunity to discuss them with other people who have also read them helps a lot. That's my biggest problem. Perhaps I should ...
Thank you for the clarification. I must admit, I was a bit puzzled by "bound". I'm used to "limit". This clarifies something that was puzzling me - ho...
Yes. I'm not disagreeing with you, for a change. :grin: Yes. Given that we are all human beings and therefore similar in many important ways (as well ...
Yes, I hear you. One of the basic issues I have with determinism is understanding why people equate it with being forced to do things. Strict idealism...
I agree with you about this. But I have a pedantic desire to clarify the matter of the gutters. I mentioned them when I suggested that one could decid...
I agree that when we come to a fork in the road and take one rather than another, we are, under normal circumstances, making a choice. Sometimes, when...
This looks like a definition of philosophy, rather than a branch of philosophy. Here's my problem:- I don't understand the question. I could probably ...
Sticking to the supposition of this puzzle creates confusion. The only possible solution is to look at it differently, not being hypnotized by 1/2, 1/...
I don't quite understand this. I could understand if you were talking about hypotheses. The journey from hypothesis (possibility) to theory (proven) i...
One has to be careful about language here. What we can do is obviously constrained by our physical limitations. But what we can do is also enabled by ...
OK. So I guess measuring an object would count as "distinguishing different parts" of it even if the line that I draw does not correspond to any pre-e...
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I never intended to say that. I thought this was crystal clear:- It depends what you mean by "divide" and by "object". This is...
I hate to be difficult, and I'm not really disagreeing, just amplifying. But I would like to add that if the pipe is cut in half lengthways, neither h...
Yes. I discovered that after the tea-time hour, it turns into a grumpy tortoise. Since then, however, it has been discovered that citizens will still ...
I've been thinking about this. My comment on this was wrong. Of course, one cannot complete infinitely many tasks in a finite time. "Complete" does no...
Yes, that's what I thought. I think the concept of a valid paradox is a bit confusing. But space or time being infinitely divisible does not entail th...
Yes. The trouble is that the inapplicability of convergent series in certain situations does not, for my money invalid them in all situations. Well, i...
Well, perhaps I'm ahead of the curve, for a change. I'll buy that. I'm sure we can get along and maybe occasionally agree to disagree. Most topics in ...
It would have been helpful if you had mention Hadot in the first place. Philosophy as a way of life is a recognizable topic within philosophy. I've ne...
Yes. That's why we could only ever conclude from the LD that prediction is not control and though the D may be said to determine, at least sometimes, ...
Your pitch in is welcome, indeed. But you must have expected to encounter disagreement - you've been involved here for quite a while. I'm happy to agr...
I always resist labels. They are supposed to be shorthand for complex views, but in practice they enable people to pigeon-hole where they have argumen...
Well, I prefer it because it is so much easier to understand what is being said. But people seem to believe in it, and I can't work out why. The encyc...
That's a difficult question to answer. Language-games are not well-defined entities. They are mostly useful as heuristics the "battle against the bewi...
You had me going there. :smile: So if I had said "And when we describe the principle of distinction between non-dimensional points on a line, we find ...
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